CAP. 132]
[s. 5 cont.]
Any person may have sample analysed.
Samples how taken.
Certificate of analyst.
Adulterated Food and Drugs.
(4) Any person who refuses or neglects to comply with any demand or requisition made by an officer in pursuance of this section commits an offence unless he proves that he had no knowledge or reason to believe that the sample demanded was required for the purpose of analysis.
6. Any person may, on payment of the prescribed fee together with the cost of the sample, require any officer to purchase a sample of any food or drug and submit the same for analysis.
7. (1) Where it is intended to submit any sample for analysis, the officer purchasing or otherwise procuring it shall, before or forthwith after procuring it, inform the seller or his agent selling the article that he intends to have the same analysed by an analyst.
(2) He shall thereupon divide the sample into three parts and shall mark and seal or fasten up, in such manner as its nature will permit, each such part and shall offer one of such parts to the seller or his agent.
(3) He shall subsequently deliver, personally, another of such parts to an analyst and shall retain the third of such parts.
(4) When any sample for analysis is procured in an unopened package, the officer procuring the same shall retain such package and at the time of delivering a part of the sample to an analyst shall also deliver to him such package together with any label which may have been attached to the said package at the time it was procured.
8. (1) The certificate of the analyst shall be in the form prescribed by regulations.
(2) Where any method of analysis, chemical or physical, has been prescribed by regulations for the analysis of any food or drug, any analyst either for the prosecution or defence shall follow and shall in his certificate of analysis declare that he has followed the prescribed method in his analysis.
(3) A copy of the result of any analysis of any food or drug procured by an officer may be obtained from the analyst by the person from whom the article so analysed was purchased or procured.
CAP. 132]
[s. 5 cont.]
Any person may have sample analysed.
Samples how taken.
Certificate of analyst.
Adulterated Food and Drugs.
(4) Any person who refuses or neglects to comply with any demand or requisition made by an officer in pursuance of this section commits an offence unless he proves that he had no knowledge or reason to believe that the sample demanded was required for the purpose of analysis.
6. Any person may, on payment of the prescribed fee together with the cost of the sample, require any officer to purchase a sample of any food or drug and submit the same for analysis.
7. (1) Where it is intended to submit any sample. for analysis, the officer purchasing or otherwise procuring it shall, before or forthwith after procuring it, inform the seller or his agent selling the article that he intends to have the same analysed by an analyst.
(2) He shall thereupon divide the sample into three parts and shall mark and seal or fasten up, in such manner as its nature will permit, each such part and shall offer one of such parts to the seller or his agent.
(3) He shall subsequently deliver, personally, another of such parts to an analyst and shall retain the third of such parts.
(4) When any sample for analysis is procured in an unopened package, the officer procuring the same shall retain such package and at the time of delivering a part of the sample to an analyst shall also deliver to him such package together with any label which may have been attached to the said package at the time it was procured.
8. (1) The certificate of the analyst shall be in the form prescribed by regulations.
(2) Where any method of analysis, chemical or physical, has been prescribed by regulations for the analysis of any food or drug, any analyst either for the prosecution or defence shall follow and shall in his certificate of analysis. declare that he has followed the prescribed method in his analysis.
(3) A copy of the result of any analysis of any food or drug procured by an officer may be obtained from the analyst by the person from whom the article so analysed was pur-
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